"We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way." -- Gloria Gaither~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

IF AIRLINES SOLD PAINT . . .

Customer: Hi. How much is your paint?Clerk: Well, sir, that all depends on quite a lot of things.

Customer: Can you give me a guess? Is there an average price?Clerk: Our lowest price is $12 a gallon, and we have 60 different prices up to $200 a gallon.

Customer: What's the difference in the paint?Clerk: Oh, there isn't any difference; it's all the same paint.

Customer: Well, then I'd like some of that $12 paint.Clerk: When do you intend to use the paint?

Customer: I want to paint tomorrow. It's my day off.Clerk: Sir, the paint for tomorrow is the $200 paint.

Customer: When would I have to paint to get the $12 paint?Clerk: You would have to start very late at night in about 3 weeks. But you will have to agree to start painting before Friday of that week and continue painting until at least Sunday.

Customer: You've got to be *&%^#@* kidding!Clerk: I'll check and see if we have any paint available.

Customer: You have shelves FULL of paint! I can see it!Clerk: But it doesn't mean that we have paint available. We sell only a certain number of gallons on any given weekend. Oh, and by the way, the price per gallon just went to $16. We don't have any more $12 paint.

Customer: The price went up as we were talking?Clerk: Yes, sir. We change the prices and rules hundreds of times a day, and since you haven't actually walked out of the store with your paint yet, we just decided to change. I suggest you purchase your paint as soon as possible. How many gallons do you want?

Customer: Well, maybe five gallons. Make that six, so I'll have enough.Clerk: Oh no, sir, you can't do that. If you buy paint and don't use it, there are penalties and possible confiscation of the paint you already have.

Customer: WHAT?Clerk: We can sell enough paint to do your kitchen, bathroom, hall and north bedroom, but if you stop painting before you do the bedroom, you will lose your remaining gallons of paint.

Customer: What does it matter whether I use all the paint? I already paid you for it!Clerk: We make plans based upon the idea that all our paint is used, every drop. If you don't, it causes us all sorts of problems.

Customer: This is crazy!! I suppose something terrible happens if I don't keep painting until after Saturday night!Clerk: Oh yes! Every gallon you bought automatically becomes the $200 paint.

Customer: But what are all these, "Paint on sale from $10 a liter" signs?Clerk: Well that's for our budget paint. It only comes in half-gallons. One $5 half-gallon will do half a room. The second half-gallon to complete the room is $20. None of the cans have labels, some are empty and there are no refunds, even on the empty cans.

Customer: To hell with this! I'll buy what I need somewhere else!Clerk: I don't think so, sir. You may be able to buy paint for your bathroom and bedrooms, and your kitchen and dining room from someone else, but you won't be able to paint your connecting hall and stairway from anyone but us. And I should point out, sir, that if you paint in only one direction, it will be $300 a gallon.

Customer: I thought your most expensive paint was $200!Clerk: That's if you paint around the room to the point at which you started. A hallway is different.

Customer: And if I buy $200 paint for the hall, but only paint in one direction, you'll confiscate the remaining paint.Clerk: No, we'll charge you an extra use fee plus the difference on your next gallon of paint. But I believe you're getting it now, sir.

Good morning everyone. We need to go to CVS to pick up our meds sometime today. Rainy and quite cool here today. To all here and all who follow, have a Great TGIF. Danish, Apple Turnovers, and Donuts in the NC. Crunchy Donut Holes for L4L.

Just wanted to say hello and to tell you that the ceramics course is wonderful, the teacher great and the group is wonderful too. Americans, Australians, Italians, Germans and a Swiss Girl (me). All women... You can imagine the chattering....

Hope everything is all right at your end of the world. Weather fine here in Tuscany and the wine.... mmmhhhhhh... sooo good.

Hope to see you soon again. Love from

Evelyne

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"You ask me what life is. That's like asking me what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot is a carrot" (A. Chekhov)

I broke out of I mean i escaped I mean I was discharged from a nursing rehab jailfacility yesterday.

So once again I'm free to roam the lands of my apartment. No more bells or people waking me up in the middle of the night to ask if I need pain medicine. No more intimate questions about my bathroom activities. And I can finally be alone again. I don't know which was worse. The constant pain or sharing a room with a very nice woman with a large nice chatty family.

Thanks to all those who sent well wishes/vibes/prayers my way. You can tell they did the job cause I'm still here. Not quite out of the woods yet but getting there.

I'm glad to be back and I would like to wish belated Merry Christmas and Happy New year to all!

Bets just make a little pan for you and Bill. Noone will ever know. Have fun gaming!

Joe thanks for the laughs and I surely hope you enjoy your day off. Baby will be happy!!

Cailyn thanks for the coffee!! Hit's the spot! Hope it warms there. Was 12 when me and Sassy went walking but now it is a nice 22!!!

Gerry stay warm and have a nice day!

Sharon so glad to see that you are back and that you are home. Been wondering and thought.......maybe, just maybe, things didn't go right and you had to stay. What a shame since it was over the holiday time but so glad you are OK now. HUGS!

Midge stay warm and have fun at work!!

Connie have a lovely day and thanks for the danish!!

Evelyne sounds like you are having way too much fun at class!!! Continue to have a lovely time!! Oh....enjoy the wine!!!

Darlene may everything go smoothly today!!

Aw Gail so sorry to hear that you are not feeling well. HUGS and Prayers!! May you feel better soonest!!

Ana have fun at class!! Catch ya later.

No plans till taxi time and then I'll be off to the Moose to work the fish fry!! WooHoo!!

I really hate health clubs in January. Parking is full, classes are jammed with people who have no sense of personal space and just no club etiquette whatsoever.

Sharon, what a great surprise to see you here! You were in my thoughts everyday even though I stopped inquiring here. I'm sorry it was more complicated than you were hoping for and I hope that you can get back to your routine again.

Gail, big hugs for you. I hope you feel better quickly.

Nan, have fun tonight. It was 11 degrees this morning and it was really hard to get myself out the door. I'll be cooking fish tonight too.

Joe, if you are bored come on over. I can always use a hiking buddy or help with a puzzle.

Bets, you can always make a small pan for you and Bill.

Darlene, will you be traveling to see your mom? Have a great day.

Evelyne, I am so glad to see you enjoying yourself. Life is good! What does hubby do while you are in class?

Connie, how is hubby feeling?

Midgie, stay warm!

Gerry, you still walking every morning? Do you go later when it's so chilly?

Sue, you are up early today. I hope all is well in your corner of the world.

Back to work for me and then I'll get the dogs out after lunch. Hopefully I'll remain upright today.

EDIT - I guess I took too long to type my post. Others snuck in.

L4L, if you have any leftover after you get done cooking, keep me in mind.

Thanks for caring Ana. What an ordeal! I went from a possible stent placement to the position of needing all 3 coronary arteries bipassed plus the valve replaced with a plastic valve and they placed pacemaker leads for just in case. I came through the surgery and somewhere along the line they decided not to replace the valve and eventually the pacemaker leads were pulled. But bottom line I had to have open heart surgery - they sawed through several ribs to get my heart out and do some nipping and tucking.

So now that's fixed and I just have to be careful (sternum precautions) and heal up as best I can. My nurses and therapist all say I'm doing very well. I'm just coping with the pain as best I can and taking things slowly.

The worse part for me to endure other than the pain was that I needed to stay in a rehab facility for at least a week and I couldn't be alone. There were always people in the room talking and talking and they never stopped talking. It was driving me bonkers. So against my doctor's advice I discharged myself to my own home. He wanted me to stay with family for another 3 weeks but I could not have endured it. I needed my space.

Anyway, things are working out well. the visiting physical therapist does not think I can benefit from her services at this time so she is discharging herself. (Outpatient Cardiac Rehab would benefit me more).

I've got a couple more therapists/nurses coming next week so we'll see how that works out. Everyone seems to agree with me that I am managing my own home care fine.

The challenge now is to get to my doctor appointments - and get my laundry done. And go shopping. I can't drive for a while. And I can't lift anything. So that creates a problem. Maybe the occupational therapist can offer some kind of home help for transportation, shopping, etc.

I'm so GLAD to be home. My cat hollered at me nonstop for hours yesterday. I put her in a lot of stress the whole time I was gone and she worried constantly. Now we are content.

sorry for not being here much - last month was a weird one - my dad had several small strokes before christmas ( he's doing great now ),my nephew was getting settled into their new house just a few miles from me ,and my internet was down more often than up. the usual real life stuff.

now i have to catch up on what everyone's been up to ,and stay warm at the same time ! and as cold as it is here in the mountains , i'm glad i'm not in new england anymore ! bright sides to everything.

If anyone wants to try a delicious healthy sherbet, I just played around with a few ingredients and it turned out amazing. Take a container of Fage, a couple sliced frozen bananas and a cup of frozen berries (any kind) and put it in a food processor. Amazing and perfectly healthy and nutritious.

Sorta, I am still adjusting to my age as well. It's just a number to me anyway. I feel young!

Sharon, you really went through the ringer. I hope that you can get some assistance around the house. Maybe you can find a grocery delivery also. Many do not charge much at all for the service. Big Hugs!

Nan, after January the novelty dies down and their resolutions are history and it'll be back to those that really feel like working out. We were all given ab lecture in the beginning of class about welcoming the newbies. It felt like gradeschool. :rotfl: Stay warm!

SpaceQ, anything fun planned?

L4L, my hubby would beg to differ.

niteowel, good to see you! I am sorry to hear about your dad but glad he is doing better. I hope your new year is wonderful!

Last week in my backyard there was a female starving pitbull and obvious she has puppies so I started feeding her but couldn't find her pups because I planned to call the pit bull rescue. Soon another dog stole her food each day. Yesterday I found her home and the other dog's home and ripped them because she looked so bad -the male lookes OK, he's a black retriever. This AM I took some cans of pedrigree over for her and confessed that I'm so happy she has a home. I would not apologize -I meant what I said. They are going to keep her, her name is Lola. This summer I could offer to have her spayed. The place is pretty bad. But then there's the 5 pups. These people look kinda degenerate really and the clutter on the porch, good grief. Won't it be better when we all have to buy our pets.

Happier thoughts. My kits have alot of upscale catnip infused toys but prefer to play with invisible mice and attack my feet ouch!! They are the yeowww catnip toys. 50$ worth from amazon.

How's 2013 so far?

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I wish I were a cat and belonged to me ~ My Aunt Helen Mary Rose

Well the sun came out, for a while, and it warmed up a bit more than expected, so I loaded up and went to Mom's to play with Baby.

Baby and I went head hunting, of course. I walked around and dug for over 2 hours and found nothing. I finally gave up, and walked over and picked Baby up and found a point on the ground near her. Yaaaaa!

It's been worked and reworked, sharpened and resharpened, but it's still a nice point.